J-shapedness: An often missed, often miscalculated relation: The example of weight and mortality

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 683-690

  Cao, Sissi ^a   Moineddin, Rahim ^b   Urquia, Marcelo L ^c   Razak, Fahad ^b,d,e,f   Ray, Joel G ^d  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAPHICAL METHOD; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHAPE; WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STILLBIRTH;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84901947487     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203439     Document Type: Article

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